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PAMLA 2023 Panel: Bodies of the Future

updated: 
Saturday, March 25, 2023 - 8:23pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 31, 2023

This panel aims to explore the role of futuristic bodies as spaces for addressing contemporary issues such as gender and race equity, climate change, and income inequality. Science fiction and speculative fiction confront us with the uncanny, asking us to question the boundaries between our reality and fictional-yet-possible futures. Centering the body, often porous and precarious, in these texts positions us to imagine the future of humanity, and encourages us to think critically about perspective shifts we must make today to enable a better tomorrow. As Michel Foucault (1980) states, “the body is given meaning and wholly constituted by discourse.

Gender Medicine: Global Perspectives on the Entanglement between Biomedicine, Socio-Cultural, and Political Construct

updated: 
Friday, March 24, 2023 - 9:18am
Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai Campus
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 15, 2023

School of Social Sciences and Languages, Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Chennai in collaboration with Asian Journal of Medical Humanities announces the call for a special issue on:

Gender Medicine: Global Perspectives on the Entanglement between Biomedicine, Socio-Cultural, and Political Construct

 

Special Issue Editors:

Dr. Manali Karmakar and Dr. Binu Sahayam D.

Contact us: manali.karmakar@gmail.com

Abstract Submission @: gendermedicinespi@gmail.com

 

Concept Note:

Post-Pandemic Condition: Biopolitics in the Aftermath of the COVID-19

updated: 
Friday, March 24, 2023 - 9:14am
Lithuanian Culture Research Institute
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 1, 2023

Call for Papers: International Conference 

Post-Pandemic Condition: Biopolitics in the Aftermath of the COVID-19

 

Conference Date: 7 September, 2023

National Gallery of Art, Konstitucijos pr. 22, Vilnius

  

The conference ‘Post-Pandemic Condition: Biopolitics in the Aftermath of the COVID-19’ revisits the concept of biopolitics by asking how the pandemic has redefined the political field and what new concepts and prospects it can offer for conceptualising our post-pandemic condition. 

Exploring human dominance, gender, and heteronormativity through cyborgs and AI in films

updated: 
Friday, March 24, 2023 - 9:11am
PAMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Films have for a very long time been used to form a narrative that may oppose what the heteronormative society believes and that is why probably it is one of the most popular forms of artistic expression. When we think of films like Her or the Japanese anime Ghost in the Shell we see the use of technology in brilliant ways. It shows how easily humans are replaceable emotionally as well as physically. But how well do these films and many others like these refute the social conditioning that often clouds our visions? Is the world of cyborgs too dystopian for humans to survive in? Or just like any ‘other’ cyborgs and AI will just become another way for the powerful in the human world to exert dominance?

Laws and Customs of the Early Modern Sea (Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, 21–23 March 2024, Chicago)

updated: 
Friday, March 24, 2023 - 9:10am
University of Massachusetts Amherst
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 15, 2023

This panel seeks papers that address any aspect of the laws and customs, broadly defined, of the early modern sea. It aims to foster an interdisciplinary dialogue about such norms, one that transcends geographical, linguistic, and methodological boundaries. Topics may include (but are in no way limited to) maritime law, naval warfare, piracy, cartography, navigation, international trade, the lex mercatoria, ship building, and the political question of open seas. Papers that consider the literary or artistic conventions governing the depiction of ocean space are welcome too.

This panel will be part of the Renaissance Society of America’s annual meeting in Chicago (21–23 March 2024).

Adaptation

updated: 
Friday, March 17, 2023 - 7:05am
Timothy Ryan Day / Saint Louis University Madrid
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 31, 2022

Adaptation

Saint Louis University—Madrid April 21-22

Adaptation is a term that bridges the divide between literature and evolution. Texts are adapted to speak to new circumstances as time advances and younger writers, directors, actors, artists, and audiences seek connections to a mutable culture. Likewise, organisms adapt over generations to better suit their circumstance.

Mechanization and the Child

updated: 
Thursday, March 16, 2023 - 11:07pm
JOCPC: Journal of Children in Popular Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 31, 2023

JOCPC is now accepting article submissions for the Fall 2023 issue focusing on the broad theme of the mechanized child. We have kept the theme open-ended and invite works across a wide range of disciplines where researchers are exploring representations of the intersection between the child figure, childhood and mechanization. This may include robotics, automatons, cyborgs, AI, VR, and other emerging technologies, both historical and future forward, real and fictional, and how these are used by, to, on and for children. Born alongside new and emerging technologies, children have an innate fluency with new technologies that often leave their adult counterparts behind, reinforcing the notion of children as symbols of futurity.

Borders in the English-speaking world: Mapping and Countermapping

updated: 
Thursday, March 16, 2023 - 9:52pm
University of Strasbourg, SEARCH research group
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 1, 2023

Borders in the English-Speaking World: Mapping and Countermapping

 

International conference organized by UR SEARCH

9-10 October 2023

University of Strasbourg

 

Keynote speakers:

 

Ladan Niayesh (Université Paris Cité/LARCA)

Michael Darroch (York University) and Lee Rodney (University of Windsor) - The research-creation hub IN/TERMINUS

Donna Akrey and Taien Ng-Chan (Artists, Hamilton Perambulatory Unit)

 

CFP Call for Conference Papers - Retro-futuristic Visions: Looking Back to Look Forward. The 2nd International Academic Conference of UP Education (Australia and New Zealand)

updated: 
Thursday, March 16, 2023 - 9:52pm
Dr. Kathryn A. Hardy Bernal, Head of Research & Postgraduate Studies, Yoobee College of Creative Innovation, New Zealand
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2023

Retro-futuristic Visions: Looking Back to Look Forward. The 2nd International Academic Conference of UP Education (Australia and New Zealand)

Event Dates: 25 – 27 October 2023, Wellington, New Zealand

Abstract Submission Deadline: 30 June 2023

Histories of Earth Sciences: visual and interdisciplinary approaches amid an environmental crisis

updated: 
Thursday, March 16, 2023 - 9:51pm
University of Insubria (Italy)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 10, 2023

Histories of Earth Sciences:

visual and interdisciplinary approaches amid an environmental crisis

 

For decades now, the history of Earth sciences has been a ground for the development of interdisciplinary research. Historians and scientists from different disciplines have been contributing with methodologies coming from the history of institutions, art history, visual studies, material studies, geoscientific fields (such as integrating geoscientific iconography or retreating historical fieldwork), philosophy, gender studies, the history of literature, political and colonial histories, disciplinary histories, and history of fieldwork.

MLA 2024 panel: Speculative Fiction and Work: Histories, Futures and Resilience [DEADLINE EXTENDED]

updated: 
Thursday, March 16, 2023 - 9:47pm
Dr. Sagnika Chanda/ Georgia Institute of Technology
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 25, 2023

Please send in your abstracts for a special panel proposed by me for MLA 2024: "Speculative Fiction and Work: Histories, Futures and Resilience" This panel examines speculative/sci-fi re-imaginings of the exploitation of laboring, vulnerable bodies to serve an extractive society and their resistances. How to envision a socially just future shaped for and by precarious labor? Please submit 250-word abstracts by 25 March, 2023 to schanda32@gatech.edu  Full description: This panel traces the interconnected histories and future of labor, vulnerable populations, and their resilience. In a post-pandemic era the definition of work has undergone a sea change with the constant threat of automation.

Call for 2023 Issue Submission: AI, Algorithms, and Leadership

updated: 
Thursday, March 16, 2023 - 9:46pm
Interdisciplinary Journal of Leadership Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, July 1, 2023

In addition to our Open Call for Papers, the Interdisciplinary Journal of Leadership Studies, with the University of Richmond’s Jepson School of Leadership Studies, publishes a wide range of high-quality scholarship. We are currently accepting paper proposals that contemplate the relationship between leadership and the digital landscape. More specifically, we invite papers that question the advantages, drawbacks, and ethics of artificial intelligence (e.g., chatbots, algorithms, etc.), social media, the singularity, et al. What, we ask scholars to question, are the relationships between these forces and leadership?

2nd annual Sturgeon Symposium

updated: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023 - 3:43pm
Gunn Center for the Study of SF, University of Kansas
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 17, 2023

The J. Wayne and Elsie M. Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction is excited to announce our 2nd Annual Sturgeon Symposium (Wed. 9/28 – Fri. 9/30/2023), celebrating the 30th anniversary of Octavia Butler's groundbreaking novel, The Parable of the Sower. As KU's choice for the 2023 Common Book program, this novel is a powerful inspiration for our Symposium's theme, "Fantastic Worlds, Fraught Futures."   

I’ll Sleep When I’m Undead: Sleep in Contemporary Horror Media

updated: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023 - 3:39pm
CORERISC / The Sociability of Sleep
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 31, 2023

                                                                            CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

                                         I’ll Sleep When I’m Undead: Sleep in Contemporary Horror Media 

                                                                           July 2-7, 2023 in Montreal

                                                                          DEADLINE: March 31, 2023

 



Memory, Ecology, and Sustainability - Second International Memory Studies Conference at IIT Madras

updated: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023 - 3:33pm
Indian Network for Memory Studies & Centre for Memory Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Madras
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 5, 2023

Memory, Ecology, and Sustainability

 The Second Annual International Conference of the Indian Network for Memory Studies (INMS) in association with the Centre for Memory Studies (CMS) at IIT Madras

                                                                                  20-22 September 2023

 

Faculty Coordinators: Avishek Parui and Merin Simi Raj, Associate Professors, IIT Madras, Faculty Investigators CMS, Founding Chairpersons, INMS.

RMMLA: English Nineteenth-Century Panel

updated: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023 - 3:26pm
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 12, 2023

Rocky Mountain 

Modern Language Association

Seventy-sixth annual convention
English Nineteenth-Century Panel

October 11-14, 2023

Denver, Colorado

Abstract Deadline: April 1, 2023

 

MLA 2024: Empire at Sea

updated: 
Wednesday, March 8, 2023 - 10:24pm
Alexander Sherman
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 23, 2023

Special Session at MLA 2024 in Philadelphia, January 4-7, 2024

 

How might we better understand colonialism, and ways of being and knowing against or outside of it, by foregrounding the maritime: oceans, sailing, ports, cargo, navigation, crews, shoals, shipwreck, piracy? “Water is the first thing in my imagination,” writes Dionne Brand in A Map to the Door of No Return: “I knew that everyone here was unhappy and haunted in some way” that “had something to do with the Door of No Return and the sea.” Following Brand’s method, the gambit of this roundtable is that approaching colonialism via the sea can help us see it better and imagine paths past it.

 

The Biopolitics of Comics

updated: 
Wednesday, March 8, 2023 - 9:05am
William Orchard
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

The Forum for Comics and Graphic Narratives seeks proposals for a guaranteed special session at the Modern Language Association annual conference to take place in Philadelphia from January 4-7, 2024.

 

MLA 2024: Rethinking Animal Comparison

updated: 
Tuesday, March 7, 2023 - 4:52pm
Arthur Wang, University of Pennsylvania and Samantha Pergadia, Southern Methodist University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

MLA 2024

Philadelphia

January 4-7, 2024

What does it mean to be treated “like an animal”?

SCI FI, FANTASY, SPEC FICTION reviews

updated: 
Tuesday, March 7, 2023 - 4:46pm
FEMSPEC JOURNAL
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2023

FEMSPEC invites scholars and creative writers to join our team of book and film/television reviewers.

We focus on fantasy, science fiction, mythic, and speculative genres and use gender-based theories as well as other interpretive models as viewing lenses.

Suggested current titles may be found in the links below.

From LITERARY HUB, https://lithub.com/21-sci-fi-and-fantasy-books-to-look-forward-to-in-2023/

From INVERSE, https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/10-anticipated-sci-fi-movies-2023

Comics on the Couch: Graphic Medicine and Psychoanalysis

updated: 
Thursday, March 2, 2023 - 4:50pm
Vera Camden
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 15, 2023

The field of narrative medicine recognizes that stories articulate the language of the body. Rita Charon, the founder of the field of narrative medicine, brought both patient and practitioner to a fuller recognition of stories as a source of medical insight and intervention: stories that may take shape in words but originate through bodily drives. Drawing lessons from psychoanalysis about “attention, drives, and relationships,” she reminded us that the nineteenth-century photographs of hysteria captured images of bodies telling stories not yet spoken.

Apocryphal Technologies (Edited Collection)

updated: 
Thursday, March 2, 2023 - 4:28pm
Jamie Allen and Anthony Enns (Editors)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 15, 2023

Apocryphal Technologies: An Archeology of Spurious and Nefarious Techniques, Devices, Practices, and Beliefs (edited collection; proposal deadline: May 15, 2023)

Scientific Modeling and the Literary

updated: 
Monday, February 27, 2023 - 9:23am
Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Links among scientific modeling, visualization, and the literary: literary dimensions of scientific models (climatology, epidemiology, etc.); literary engagements with models and visualization; relationships between scientific and literary representations of and speculations regarding complex systems.

Sponsored by the Science and Literature Forum.

Abstract + brief bio to Rebecca Evans (evansr@southwestern.edu) by March 15, 2023.

"Doctor Virtualis" 2024: Fragments of order and disorder in the Middle Ages

updated: 
Monday, February 27, 2023 - 9:21am
Doctor Virtualis Journal of History of Medieval Philosophy, University of Milan
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 30, 2023

Call for paper “Doctor Virtualis” 19

 

Fragments of order and disorder in the Middle Ages

 

«Sosteneva, fra l’altro, che le inopinate catastrofi non sono mai la conseguenza o l’effetto che dir si voglia d’un unico motivo, d’una causa al singolare: ma sono come un vortice, un punto di depressione ciclonica nella coscienza del mondo, verso cui hanno cospirato tutta una molteplicità di causali convergenti. Diceva anche nodo o groviglio, o garbuglio, o gnommero, che alla romana vuol dire gomitolo»

(C.E. Gadda, Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana)

 

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